Give your AI agent a shortlist.

Connect your client

1. Claude Code

   Run this in your terminal. It adds the server to every project.

   claude mcp add --transport http --scope user shortlistsaas https://shortlistsaas.com/mcp

2. Claude (web and desktop app)

   Open Customize › Connectors, choose + Add › Add custom connector. Name it Shortlist SaaS, paste the server URL, and pick No sign in.

   On a Team or Enterprise plan, an owner adds it once in Organization settings › Connectors, then members click Connect.

3. Cursor

   Add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json for all projects, or to .cursor/mcp.json in one project. Then restart Cursor.

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "shortlistsaas": {
         "url": "https://shortlistsaas.com/mcp"
       }
     }
   }

4. VS Code with GitHub Copilot

   Add an HTTP MCP server with the URL above from the MCP servers view, or add this to ~/.copilot/mcp-config.json.

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "shortlistsaas": {
         "type": "http",
         "url": "https://shortlistsaas.com/mcp",
         "tools": [
           "*"
         ]
       }
     }
   }

5. Any other MCP client

   Add a remote server with the URL above. It speaks Streamable HTTP and needs no headers and no sign-in.

Then just ask

• “Find me a tool that transcribes my online meetings and writes the notes.”
• “I run a small online shop. Shortlist email marketing tools that fit a two-person team.”
• “Which website builders on Shortlist SaaS let me sell online without code?”

Shortlist SaaS finds the category, scores each product’s own description against the job, and your agent shows you the ones that fit.

Four tools

shortlist

The main tool. Give it the job in plain words and it returns the products that fit, best first, each with a fit score from 0 to 100. Each call scores up to 8 new products, and the agent calls again while more are left.

search_listings

Finds the live listings for a need, by category and by text, without scoring new ones. Good for a quick look before a shortlist.

list_categories

Every category of the directory, with the slug that the other tools accept.

get_listing

The full public listing for one product: name, website, logo, description and categories.

Fair use

• It is free, with no key. All agents share a daily scoring limit. When it runs out, the tools say so, and it resets the next day.
• Each connection also has its own limits per minute and per day, so one runaway loop cannot use up the day for everyone.
• Searches from agents are handled the same way as on the website: we keep a one-way hash of the need, never the text. See the privacy notice.
• The scores are an automated opinion based on what owners wrote, not advice. Check a product before you buy it.